"Pro-Palestinian Protest at Columbia University Leads to Over 100 Arrests"

Jewish faculty at Columbia University express alarm and disappointment as President Minouche Shafik capitulated to illiberal agendas during a House education and workforce committee hearing on antisemitism, failing to defend academic principles and free expression. They criticize the committee's use of specious charges of antisemitism to attack universities and its bullying of the president into flouting academic procedures. The faculty argue that the hearings aim to stifle pro-Palestinian speech and protest, equating discomfort with actual danger and threatening academia's fundamental values and democracy itself. They express concern over the president's harsh punishment of students protesting the war on Gaza and the risk it poses to the university's foundations.